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Fireballn
Skeptic Friend
Canada
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 Posted - 02/09/2003 : 01:16:03 [Permalink]
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Slater:The probability of an imaginary god existing, by the bye, is zero. Why do you cling to these childish superstitions?
Who said anything about a God? This is a presumtion you made up. It does show how you view evidence without evidence. |
If i were the supreme being, I wouldn't have messed around with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers 8 o'clock day one!
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
925 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2003 : 01:44:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Fireballn
If Jane Doe won the lottery and a million other people played, her odds of winning are a million to one. You are so caught up in magic, you are losing your focus.
Incorrect. This describes a drawing - each person puts his name (or some other unique identifier) into a box and a single entry is drawn at random. Lotteries, at least in the US, don't work that way. The probability of winning is the probability that one's set of numbers (usuall six or seven) exactly match the numbers picked by the lottery commission. The probability is not affected by the number of entrants. |
I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2003 : 11:59:52 [Permalink]
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Who said anything about a God? This is a presumtion you made up. It does show how you view evidence without evidence.
I see. So you have stopped believing in god the creator, and the 86 posts previous to this one are no longer evidence of what you believe now. That's nice. |
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